The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-10-05
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.
Bay City has vinegar factory.

potato bug sprinklers this season.
John G.. Owen will build saw mill in
Brookfeld Township, Huron County.
Lansing is one of the best lighted
cities in the State. Gas and electricity are
used.
1t is expected that Saginaw's new
match factory will be in operation by
November |.
-Almont young boys 60 shooting. and
several families have lost chickens and
turkeys in consequence.
Jim Cars ranch ut Meredith has been
moved across the line into Gladwin Coun-
ty, and the Gladwin Record does not re-
ioice over its coming.
A wild man is causing some little eI-
element in st. Ignaoe by parading the
streets with a shotgun. 1t has been sug-
gested that he be arrested.
- And now Mt. Pleasant wants a bust
ness mems association. There are plenty
lying around different parts of the State
which could probably be had cheap.
In the Circuit Court at Adrian recent
ly Frank r. Norton was sentenced to eight
years hard labor at Jackson. On the night
of Aug. 29 he made murderous assault on
his mother while under the influence Of
morphine and whisky.
j. V. Lisee & Co., shoedealers, at No.
lac Woodward avenue, Detroit, has failed
for $4,000. A chattel mortgage for about
half that sum was given 10 the creditors.
The cause Of the failure is the withdrawal
of capital invested in the firm by outside
parties.
e. p. Boughton d Co., of Chase, have
been engaged during the summer in lum-
bering tract of 10000, 900 feet of timber
purchased several months ago and located
near Farwell. The logs are rallied to Chase.
They expect to complete the operation
about Jan. /.
Capt. George Berringer, ex-Mayor OF
Negaunee, and one of the oldest residents
of the peninsula, died at Norway recently.
Mr.. Berringer was mining man of wide
experience, and was closely identified with
the development of this and the Gogebic
iron district.
Last week three suits were commenced
against the Muskegon Booming Company
by farmers IN Missaukee and Claire coun-
ties, claiming damages in the aggregate
of $4,000, on account of tho overflow
upon their lands caused by the jams of
logs in the river.
Pensions: Dora, widow Of John d.
Thomas, Hamburg; L. Blackman, Howell;
F. Smith, Decatur; NJ. L. Skillman, Mount
Clemens; J. Sonke, Grand Rapids; G.. w.
Hicks, Kalamazoo; Alonzo Packard,
Flushing; NJ. Van B. Palmer, Munson; 7.
L. Thompson, Coldwater; w. ]. Brown,
Gagetown.
The Twentieth Michigan Veterans fear
that there will be no reunion of that regi-
ment this year, the last elected President
having gone to Colorado, and no Vice
President having been chosen, so that
what now is everybody's business is no.
body's. If they miss this year it will be
the first time since their organization
in &C.
Six weeks ago Negaunee man took
walk out of town on the east range, accom-
panied by his dog. On his way home he
missed the dog, but did not doubt he had
preceded him back to town. A few days
ago two explorers found the dog in a test
pit seventeen feet deep and rescued him.
He was q mere skeleton after his six
weeks fast, but was still alive, and has
now almost regained his old proportions
and spirits.
William Armstrong, about ii years
old, was shot and severely wounded at
Schoolcraft by a comrade. They were out
shooting blackbirds with 22-caliber rife,
and as his comrade, George Bennett, was
loading the gun, his coat sleeve caught on
the hammer and discharged the gun. The
ball struck Armstrong just above the knee,
and passing under the pan came out of the
calf of his leg. The wound is quite serious
and will probably result in stiffening of
the knee joint.
The Saginaw Mine, which in its day
produced over half million tons of good
ore, and made fortune for its owners, is
to be leased. The property is owned by @.
+. Conrad, now of the Dexter Mine, and
will be released to any responsible party
who is prepared to work it. A lease of the
mine was held by A. A. Anderson at the
time of his death, but since then nothing
has been done at the mine. There is said
to be both hard ore and hematite on the
Saginaw property, and some mining man
might strike a very good thing there.
-Homesteaders and other settlers COM
ing in from the wilder parts of Baraga
County report that there are many claim
jumpers in that section and that they are
causing great deal of trouble, especially
to those holding Marquette, Houghton and
Ontonagon indemnity lands. So serious
has the evil grown that the homesteaders
and settlers propose to organize vigilance
committee and deal out summary justice
10 the thieves. The section is so far from
the nearest village that the assistance of
the law cannot be speedily invoked, and